I n t e r n e t C o m m i t t e e f o r
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Order of Preachers
Presentation For the Bologna '98
General Chapter
23 July 1998
- Background Information
- OPnet Charter
- Services we currently provide
- Terminology for the internet.
- Suggestion Directions and Projects
There are two ways that we can think about the internet. Each suggests
its own projects:
- The internet is new country to be evangelized.
- We need to be there! This is NOW. This is the FUTURE.
- Dominican Internet News
An inernet news service where dominicans from around the world can report
and comment on their local situation, especially in the areas of peace
and justice and religious news.
- Dominican Theological Resources on the Internet
A collection of theological articles on current topics accessable on the
internet. People using the library, Dominicans and anyone else, will have
access to high quality papers on a wide range of theological topics. It
will be possible to search for papers on particular subjects, or containing
a particular selection of words. Papers could be provided by Dominicans
or selected from a wider source, perhaps eventually including members of
other Christian churches, and other faiths.
- Dominican University on the Internet
People around the world could study using materials provided over the Internet,
and by submitting their work to a professor using the Internet. This is
similar to study at a correspondence university, except that the correspondence
and all reading materials could be provided electronically.
- The internet is a darn handy way to communicate among ourselves.
Therefore we have some concrete suggestions
to make.
